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1 October 2015 Testing Phylogenetic Relationships of Floian (Ordovician) Graptolite Records from Argentina Through Cladistic Analysis
Barbara A. Vento, Blanca A. Toro, Jörg Maletz
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Abstract

The analysis of two-stiped dichograptids, largely of baltograptid and expansograptid taxa of the family Didymograptidae from the Floian of northwestern Argentina, provides insight into the evolutionary relationships of this group. The important proximal end characters clearly cluster the baltograptids with the derived genera Didymograptus and Aulograptus. One of the analyses provides the information that the genera Cymatograptus and Expansograptus share a common ancestor but are not closely related to the two-stiped Kiaerograptus and related taxa. Likewise, with the exception of some controversial taxa, the families Tetragraptidae and Didymograptidae can be readily differentiated, supporting previous interpretations that they represent monophyletic clades. Although the present analyses are poorly supported, they provide hypotheses that could be further tested based on new data on isolated dichograptid taxa based on isolated or relief-preserved material.

Barbara A. Vento, Blanca A. Toro, and Jörg Maletz "Testing Phylogenetic Relationships of Floian (Ordovician) Graptolite Records from Argentina Through Cladistic Analysis," Ameghiniana 52(5), 517-534, (1 October 2015). https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.23.07.2015.2856
Received: 11 November 2014; Accepted: 1 July 2015; Published: 1 October 2015
KEYWORDS
Argentina
filogenia
Floian
Floiano
Graptolites
Graptolitos
Ordovician
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